About to buy a KROME

[tatun2010]

Hi guys, l know that is a known topic but l'm just trying to be sure. l live in Argentina and l'm about to buy a keyboard. l can pay for a new Korg KROME but in the same store there's a beautiful Korg Triton Extreme, second hand, at the same price of the KROME, both of them with 88 keys. l'm a gig player and l play a lot of acoustic and electric pianos. l'm really confused about which keyboard to buy..I need help.
On the KROME side l think about great acoustic and electric pianos, cheap design, no sampler and semipro player oriented.

On the EXTREME side l think about old piano sounds, great design, small sampler included, pro player oriented, lightweight ( (but still I should to take a cab to my gigs cause have no car)

I was thinking that may be could use some VSTi to replace the piano sounds in the EXTREME, but I´m not sure if the other sounds are old dated, heavyweight (cab)

I have played both in the store and the action is great in both of them.

The KROME has official warranty, the EXTREME just 3 months from the store to return it and take my money back.

Any thought that you have in mind could be useful to me to choose which one to buy.

Greetings from Buenos Aires!

[blueviolin]

Let me first say that I am a complete amateur. So my considerations may not be valid for you.

I think, the normal audience will not notice the nuances between the sounds of older sample based synths like the Triton and the new sounds of the Krome especially if there are drums and other loud instruments in the band as well.

I started as the bass player in our 70s cover band. Then at one song I found we could be clother to the original with if we had some strings and a flute. So I was looking for a cheap workstation like the Yamaha MX but ended with the Krome. The reason is that I can easily assign up to 16 sounds to various splits and velocity layers and that I can assign up to 5 different effects to the sounds individually, like organ with lesley and bass without.
When buying the Krome I found that some of the sounds of the MOX were a little more pleasing. But the userinterface was not so intuitive to me.

Compared to the Triton the Krome has much less weight. But even my Krome 61 becomes very heavy after a few 10 meters hanging on my shoulder in a gig bag. So when you have to carry it, every kg counts.
The weak point is the keybed as other have pointed out in other threads. I have the 61key version but I also do not like the keybed of the 88.

So the Triton would be my choice because of the better keybed if I was sure I will never have to carry it a long way. Otherwise the Krome.

[SanderXpander]

I think you've broken it down pretty well for yourself. If your focus is acoustic pianos and Rhodes/EPs I think the Krome definitely beats the Triton for sound.
I'm more of a band player myself and play a lot of synth parts - in my case I would definitely pick the TEX (in fact I still have one, with the MOSS board). But if you need mainly piano/EP it's not great, I coupled it with a Nord Stage at the time.

Do you need all those extra things like a sampler and thousands of synth sounds? If not, also consider a Casio PX5. It has a surprisingly good piano keybed and piano sound. It actually has a decent synth in it too, though editing it is fiddly.

[Eduardo_Arg]

Hola Tatun2010:

Sobre tu consulta, definitivamente comprá el Krome.-
En alguna medida tu afirmación respecto de la calidad del keybed, el Triton, como muchos de su época apostaban a materiales mas pesados.-
Pero en lo que a sonidos se refiere, el Krome está a años luz del Triton con samples bastante antiguos para mi gusto.-
Por lo pronto el software es muy superior, especialmente en lo que a la edición de sonidos y efectos se refiere, y definitivamente superior a cualquier otro fabricante en lo que a sequencer se refiere.-
Si apostas por el de 88 teclas, te vas a encontrar con un keybed muy similar al que tiene el Kronos.-
Si apostas por el de 73 teclas, te vas a encontrar con un teclado tipo sinte pero muy cómodo al tacto.-
El otro factor que para mi pesa, es que el Krome es 0km, en tanto que el Triton ya recorrió no solo en el uso sino en la parte electrónica varios kms.- Y siempre es preferible uno nuevo, donde vos sos el primero en posar sus manos sobre el y los riesgos estan cubiertos durante los siguientes 6 meses.-
En cuanto al Krome, hay un interesante sitio del que podés descargar combis impresionantes, sin perjuicio de aquellas que vos puedas crear.- El sitio es Kromeheaver.- Hechale un vistazo y escucha algunas de las combis.- Si bien yo tengo un Kronos, debo reconocer que el Krome es una opción interesante con un sustancial menor desenvolso de dinero.-
En cuanto al peso del teclado, tené en cuenta el de 73, ya que es muy liviano, y la distribución de las octavas te dejará - aunque lo podés transponer - con solo una octava menos en la parte superior.-
Espero que te sirva de ayuda.-
Un abrazo desde Argentina.-